It is hard to guess what a Little Swan Island hutia weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Little Swan Island hutia (Geocapromys thoracatus) on average weights 1.5 kg (3.31 lbs).
The Little Swan Island hutia is from the family Capromyidae (genus: Geocapromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 33.7 cm (1′ 2″).
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The Little Swan Island hutia (Geocapromys thoracatus) is an extinct species of rodent that lived on the Swan Islands, off north-eastern Honduras in the Caribbean. It was a slow-moving, guinea-pig-like rodent and probably emerged from caves and limestone crevices to forage on bark, small twigs and leaves.It may have been a subspecies of the Jamaican hutia (Geocapromys browni), whose ancestors were carried to the island from Jamaica, 5000–7000 years ago. It was fairly common in the early 20th century, but disappeared after a severe hurricane (Hurricane Janet) in 1955, followed by the introduction of house cats to the island.
Animals of the same family as a Little Swan Island hutia
We found other animals of the Capromyidae family:
- Desmarest’s hutia bringing 5.2 kilos (11.46 lbs) to the scale
- Prehensile-tailed hutia with 1 babies per litter
- Hispaniolan hutia bringing 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs) to the scale
- Dwarf hutia with 1 babies per litter
- Eared hutia with 1 babies per litter
- Black-tailed hutia with 1 babies per litter
- Bahamian hutia with a weight of 912 grams
- Jamaican coney bringing 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Little Swan Island hutia
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Geocapromys thoracatus:
- Northern brushtail possum with a weight of 1.55 kilos (3.42 lbs)
- Silvery greater galago with a weight of 1.58 kilos (3.48 lbs)
- Steppe polecat with a weight of 1.68 kilos (3.7 lbs)
- Philippine flying lemur with a weight of 1.25 kilos (2.76 lbs)
- Hispaniolan hutia with a weight of 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs)
- Tree pangolin with a weight of 1.54 kilos (3.4 lbs)
- Boodie with a weight of 1.45 kilos (3.2 lbs)
- Black giant squirrel with a weight of 1.61 kilos (3.55 lbs)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel with a weight of 1.43 kilos (3.15 lbs)
- Greater grison with a weight of 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Little Swan Island hutia
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Little Swan Island hutia:
- Small dorcopsis with a size of 38.7 cm (1′ 4″)
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Cape dune mole-rat with a size of 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Black-bearded flying fox with a size of 28.5 cm (1′ 0″)
- Indonesian mountain weasel with a size of 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Common degu with a size of 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Banded linsang with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Three-striped night monkey with a size of 35.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Robust cottontail with a size of 39.4 cm (1′ 4″)